6.15.0 BASIC INSTRUCTIONS ON RECORDING TITLES OF A MUSICAL WORKS [sic]

As is clear from the [sic] above, this section heading needs to be changed to "Basic instructions on recording titles of musical works"

- Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.0.1 Scope

[essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

6.15.0.2 Sources of information

[essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

6.15.0.2.2: Should the instruction reference here be to 6.2.1.2 (LC's suggestion) or to 6.15.1 (equivalent rule referenced in RDA draft)? - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.0.3 General guidelines on recording titles of musical works

6.15.1 PREFERRED TITLE FOR A MUSICAL WORK

6.15.1.1 Scope

[essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

6.15.1.2 Sources of information

[essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

6.15.1.3 Choosing the preferred title for a musical work

[essentially unchanged from RDA full draft -- except for the proposed addition of 6.15.1.3.4]

RECORDING THE PREFERRED TITLE

6.15.1.4 Recording the preferred title for a musical work

[essentially the same content as the full draft of RDA, except for LC's proposal to remove the "exception"]

6.15.1.4.3

This is not an instruction; it only contains examples. Why the separate numbering? - Glennan 11/14/08

Prefer layout in full draft because of this problem. - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.1.4.4

Reinstate exception text. Otherwise, how will Beethoven's Sinfonia eroica/Eroica symphony be named consistently as "Symphonies, no. 3..."? (This is especially an issue since Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique appears as a preferred title in the examples in 6.15.1.4.3.) - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.5 Preferred title is not distinctive

[Change from what is in full RDA draft, using the concept of "not distinctive" instead of "name of one type of composition" -- a compromise the May Group agreed to, more or less - Glennan 11/24/08]

Insufficient guidance. Include concept of cognates? This concept was introduced in the "May Group" discussions but not fully embraced by all participants. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.6 Duets

[same as RDA full draft]

6.15.1.7 Trio sonatas

[same as RDA full draft]

PARTS OF MUSICAL WORKS

6.15.1.8 Recording the preferred title for a part or parts of a musical work

6.15.1.9 One part

[Content essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

How important is it to determine the preferred title for the part in this section? In terms of "naming" the excerpt from a work, doesn't this "require" a preferred access point? In other words, for the instructions here, I think you should record all relevant pieces of information available, just like you would with the medium of performance element, or the key, which will reside in a "work record" even if these elements don't appear in the preferred access point. Once the full draft is available, we will need to compare this instruction with the "non-specialist" equivalent in the earlier part of Chapter 6. The specifics about what to put in (or omit from) a preferred or variant access point for music should go in 6.28. - Glennan 11/14/08

6.15.1.9a Part identified only by a number

When/how are the numeric designators addressed? Nothing in this instruction provides for recording "Nr. 5" instead of just "5". We'll need to check the final draft of the full Chapter 6 to make sure this is clear elsewhere in RDA, as this potential problem would affect more than just music. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.9e Part of a larger part

Rephrasing needed! The following was proposed in 5JSC/LC/12/ALA response/ALA follow-up. I strongly recommend trying this again:

6.15.1.9e
e) Part of a larger part

6.15.1.9e.1

> If the part is part of a larger part:

a) If the larger part has a distinctive title, record the title of the larger part preceding the title and/or designation of the smaller part.

Cantiones sacrae. O vos omnes

(Part of Hieronymus Praetorius’s Opus musicum)

b) If the title of the larger part is not distinctive, record the title and/or designation of the smaller part as the preferred title.

Pifa

not Part 1. Pifa

Exception:

6.15.1.9e.2

If an indistinctive designation of the larger part is required to identify the smaller part, record that designation preceding the title or designation of the smaller part.

Atto 3o. Preludio

(Part of Giuseppe Verdi’s Traviata)

-- Glennan 11/10/08

If the above proposal doesn't fly, at least change the final word "period" to "full stop" [a problem here & in the RDA full draft] - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.1.10 Two or more parts

[Content essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

COMPILATIONS OF MUSICAL WORKS

6.15.1.10.2

How does example illustrate the instruction? I don't see anything about adding the number to the suite in this case. Recommend using a different example. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.11 Recording the preferred title for compilations of musical works

[Essentially unchanged from RDA full draft]

Although this section heading is clear, should the instructions 6.15.1.13--6.15.1.15 all start with "Compilation of..." (or is that redundant? This will be worth checking in the online version (for similar things) to see whether or not precise wording is important in individual instructions. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.12 Complete works

[Same content as RDA full draft, until 6.15.1.12.2 & 6.15.1.12.3, which are new]

6.15.1.12.1

Because this instruction parallels 6.2.1.14, I recommend a reference there to the specific music instructions here. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.12.3

This instruction is out of place. It does not belong under "complete works". Instead, it would fit better under 6.15.1.16.2, I think, but it's in conflict with the instruction there. - Glennan 11/10/08

"Works. Selections" seems to come out of the blue; we need to confirm that this is the JSC's intent. This instruction appears to conform to 6.2.1.16.2, but the impact is much clearer here. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.1.13 Works of various types for one broad medium of performance

[much of content similar to RDA full draft, with one editorial change & the addition of the alternative at 6.15.13.2]

6.15.1.14 Works of various types for one specific medium of performance

[content similar to RDA full draft, with the addition of the alternative at 6.15.14.2]

6.15.1.15 Works of one type for one specific medium or various media

[textual content unchanged from RDA full draft in 6.15.1.15.1; LC proposes adding 6.15.1.15.2 and some changes in the examples in 6.15.1.15.1]

6.15.1.15.1

Examples: While I don't object to the addition of "Cadenzas" to the examples list, I wonder why "Motion picture music" and "Musicals" have been omitted. - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.1.15.3

Examples show medium statement, when that's actually not part of this instruction. Does this more properly belong in the creating preferred access points section? - Glennan 11/10/08

If this instruction belongs in this part of Chapter 6 at all, I'd recommend moving it to the numbering instructions in 6.17. It certainly doesn't belong here. It's hard to say whether or not this really belongs in 6.28 somewhere; 6.28.1.6.1 refers back to 6.17.... - Glennan 11/12/08

6.15.1.16 Other compilations

[Same content as RDA full draft]

6.15.2 VARIANT TITLE FOR A MUSICAL WORK
[same content as RDA full draft]

Recommend changing this title to "Variant titles for musical works" since the earlier part of 6.15 makes a clear distinction between instructions for "a musical work" and for "compilations of musical works", but that distinction doesn't really appear here. Subsequent titles in 6.15.2 include the term "musical works", so this terminology should be extended to the title of the entire section. - Glennan 11/11/08

6.15.2.1 Scope

[same content as RDA full draft]

Is the intention to apply the variant title instructions to non-distinctive titles? Under AACR2 we normally don't provide cross references in authority records for cognates such as Quartets/Kvartets/Quartetten/Quartettes etc. - Glennan 11/10/08

6.15.2.1.1
Recommend adding "for the work" to the end of this instruction, to parallel the wording in 6.2.2.1.1. - Glennan 11/11/08

6.15.2.2 Sources of information

[same content as RDA full draft]

6.15.2.2.1 should parallel 6.2.3.2, "Take variant titles for a work from any source." Change "work" to "musical work" in this sentence to make it fit beter in 6.15. - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.2.3 General guidelines on recording variant titles for musical works

[same content as RDA full draft]

6.15.2.3.1
Change wording to parallel 6.2.3.3 as follows:
"Record variant titles for musical works applying the basic instructions on recording titles of works given under 6.2.1." - Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.2.3.2

Confusing; I think we're talking about work records here, not variant titles in manifestation records. In any case, eliminate the footnote -- not part of RDA style & not part of the "general" instruction in 6.2.3.3. - Glennan 11/24/08

[similar content to RDA full draft; examples differ, with the full draft offering more of the different language form examples; LC proposes better headings for additional examples, which better parallels the equivalent layout in 6.2.3... - Glennan 11/24/08]

Rename section heading to parallel 6.2.3.4 as follows:
Alternative Linguistic Form of Title for the Musical Work
- Glennan 11/24/08

6.15.2.4.1

Prefer adding additional titles under "Mountain maid" example, as appears in RDA full draft 6.15.3.4. Consider adding additional examples from that instruction here as well. Prefer LC's use of bold headings to bring out different types of variant titles. - Glennan 11/24/08